Chasing Fireflies: A Moonflower Cove Romance by Addison Clarke

Author:Addison Clarke [Clarke, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Mason

G ame nights at Sophia and Emily’s apartment typically were a highlight of Mason’s week. She enjoyed being able to see her friends and eat junk food and drink Sophia’s expensive French wine. On more than one occasion, Mason had consumed too much wine and stayed in the spare bedroom overnight. Thankfully, she’d been better at keeping her drinking under control the last few months.

Granted, that was all about to be up in the air if Chase showed up to game night.

Mason didn’t care if she came or not. Her happiness wasn’t dependent on Chase being in the same room as her or not. But Mason didn’t want to explain to anyone why there was tension between the two of them. And she knew there would be tension after their fight the day before.

Why did she kiss me in front of them? That question had been bouncing around Mason’s head like the DVD logo on a paused TV screen. She wanted answers; she needed answers. Never had Mason kissed a fling in front of her friends before. That was behind closed doors behavior, not public displays of affection for all to see. It annoyed Mason more than anything.

Maybe she hadn’t made the rules clear to Chase when they started the whole friends with benefits thing. After all, they had done little talking about it before jumping into bed together. Mason was used to the speed of flings because usually they fizzled out in a couple of weeks and she moved on to someone else.

Chase was different. Mason has known that since the beginning and yet she’d naively assumed she was wrong. Surely best friends could be friends with benefits with no problems and no jealousy.

Wrong.

Mason wanted more with Chase, but instead of telling her that, Mason pushed her away. It was typical for how she reacted anytime she got close to someone. She always thought she was better off pushing them away than risking her heart getting more involved and ultimately broken. Because no one stayed with Mason long-term. She was the layover to their final destination, that was all.

Parking her Jeep on the street in front of the apartment, Mason grabbed the chip dip she’d made the night before. Emily and Sophia’s apartment was on the second floor and Mason let herself into the door using the code. Sophia was serious about safety as Alexis and Harper lived across the hall from her in the other apartment. They didn’t give the code to many people, and it was a running joke for a while that Blake didn’t have the code when she first moved in.

Mason took the stairs to the second floor, two at a time. She paused for a moment at the boxes sitting outside Alexis and Blake’s front door. Are they moving already? Why didn’t they tell me? Shrugging, Mason pushed open Sophia and Emily’s door with her shoulder.

“The party can start now.” Instead of being greeted by her group of friends, she was met only with Sophia and Emily in the kitchen, cutting up fruits and veggies for the dip trays.

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